Mercer's lyrics are characterized by an unerring ear for rhythmic nuances, a puckish sense of humor expressed in language with a colloquial flair.

Other examples of his readiness for both warlike and unwarlike subjects are lyrics celebrating his brother's heroic exploits as a Babylonian mercenary and lyrics sung in a rare meter ( Sapphic Ionic in minore ) in the voice of a distressed girl, " Wretched me, who share in all ills!

The song features the lyrics, " If I'm Obelix, you are my boulder ".

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

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The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

The rhythms are influenced by the American rap scene, and the lyrics are often about crime, drugs, money, women and many criminal things.

" He commented that the lyrics are " breathtaking ".

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

While the origins of hip-hop are believed to be from the Bronx, rival hip-hop group Juice Crew's lyrics were misunderstood to contain a claim in the song " The Bridge " that hip hop was directly a result of artists originating from Queensbridge.

Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.

Pasternak later noted on a photograph of himself " Petőfi is magnificent with his descriptive lyrics and picture of nature, but you are better still.

* The Croatian Bojna za specijalna djelovanja ( BSD ) use the lyrics, but instead of " These are men, America's best " they sing " These are men, Croatia's best " and in the final chorus, referring to the son of a killed Green Beret, they also sing " Make him one of Croatia's best ".

Below are the lyrics of the version most often played ; it corresponds to Verse V of the full version and the chorus:

Love's song lyrics are predominantly told from a female's point of view, and her earlier work, particularly on Hole's first two albums, was noted for being highly aggressive and critical toward cultural definitions of women.

In O Sweet Saint Martin's Land, the lyrics for the Southern Cross are Thy Southern Cross the night.

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

The acute and grave accents are occasionally used in poetry and lyrics: the acute to indicate stress overtly where it might be ambiguous ( rébel vs. rebél ) or nonstandard for metrical reasons ( caléndar ), the grave to indicate that an ordinarily silent or elided syllable is pronounced ( warnèd, parlìament ).

Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

" An article in Drowned in Sound argues that 1980s-era " hardcore is the true spirit of punk ", because " after all the poseurs and fashionistas fucked off to the next trend of skinny pink ties with New Romantic haircuts, singing wimpy lyrics ", the punk scene consisted only of people " completely dedicated to the DIY ethics ".

Even though it is difficult at times to understand completely the lyrics that are being said rappers still get the heat for causing violence and disturbance within society because of their intense message of rebelling against the system.

The musical style is predominantly music hall, but the show includes a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan, a church choir arrangement with some completely incongruous lyrics ( A Little Bit On The Side ), and some touching ballads.

Many of Porter's ribald lyrics were altered to conform to the guidelines of the Motion Picture Production Code, and " Blow Gabriel Blow " was eliminated completely, replaced by a song Merman was forced to perform in a headdress made of peacock feathers while surrounded by dancers dressed as Chinese slave girls.

One of the songs that Cherone had written for the scrapped second album with Van Halen entitled " Left For Dead ", would see its lyrics set to a completely new musical arrangement with Tribe of Judah.

Geezer Butler thus resumed his traditional job as Black Sabbath's primary lyricist, and completely new lyrics for the album were written, including what became " Junior's Eyes ".

He displays ignorance over the issues that unfolded in Ireland, once chastising the Irish over the potato famine with the remark, " at the end of the day, they will pay the price for being a fussy eater ", and also completely misunderstanding the lyrics to Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2, believing the song to " really encapsulate the frustrations of a Sunday " ( both of these conversations happened in front of two Irish television producers in To Kill A Mocking Alan ).

A few of the Sherman / Busch songs are completely original creations, featuring original music as well as lyrics, rather than new lyrics applied to an existing melody.

He planned to sing in English anyway, but changed his mind at the very last moment, causing him to completely forget the lyrics.

The second version was produced by Arista Records and had both a different shade of orange shirt and a different version of track 4 " Easy Mark ", recorded with a completely alternate tempo and lyrics altered due to their similarity with the song " Don't Stop Believin '" by Journey.

The lyrics were almost completely void of any violence, while a larger number of tracks focused on the group itself.

For this version, the lyrics were not translated but rather changed completely to an anti-drug anthem about a young man dying because of his drug addiction-an extremely hot topic in that year, when heroin was making the first big inroads in Germany.

Its music and lyrics, by Frank Loesser, are so right for the show and so completely lacking in banality, that they amount to an artistic triumph ".

* Triple Echo ( 3 record compilation, 1967 – 1976 ) ( Harvest, 1977 )-Notable for containing both the rare big-band arrangement of Esther's Nose Job and the completely reworked " here at the BBC " version of the Moon in June lyrics.

It was revived in 1929 with completely new lyrics, known as Sei gesegnet ohne Ende, which remained the national anthem until the Anschluss.

The dance is completely choreographed and the movements tend to mimic the lyrics.

At that time, both were writing their own music & lyrics creating a coloquial and completely new style.

Occasionally, the song may be re-recorded with different lyrics, ranging from just the replacement of one line being re-recorded, like James Blunt's " You're Beautiful ," which replaces " fucking high " with " flying high " in the second verse, to the entire song be completely changed, such as D12's " Purple Hills ", which replaces profanity, drug references, and other inappropriate lyrics from the original " Purple Pills ".

She was faced with an arduous task, given Rodgers open dismissal of Sondheim's lyrics as " shit " and eventually banned Laurents from rehearsals completely.

Its title track has been covered by various bands, including The Presidents of the United States of America, who completely reworked the lyrics to an upbeat form on their eponymous debut album in 1995, post-punkers Volcano Suns on their 1989 double album Thing of Beauty, hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult on their 1978 live album Some Enchanted Evening, Rage Against the Machine on their album Renegades with Tom Morello also performing the song with Street Sweeper Social Club and Trent Reznor live, Henry Rollins with Bad Brains for the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack, Afrika Bambaataa, Monster Magnet, Japanese rockers Guitar Wolf on their debut album Run Wolf Run, Jeff Buckley ( whose version was released on his posthumous " legacy edition " of Grace on the bonus CD of unreleased songs ), Entombed on the EP Family Favourites, Silverchair, and Give Up the Ghost ( formerly American Nightmare ) on their Year One compilation.

Instead of completely abandoning the material that had already been produced, Lucassen decided to put his own lyrics to the music and created Star One.

The song " Written on the Walls " from the band's self titled album was given completely new lyrics and renamed " Cast in Stone ".

While waiting for a proper sequel to Kär och galen Lundell released two records, one in which he interpreted the English songs with Swedish lyrics ( Sweethearts ) and a completely acoustic album ( 12 sånger ).